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Real Estate Market On The Rise In Budapest
- 6 Aug 2015 11:45 AM
- property
The growing popularity of online vacation rentals has driven up demand for flats in central Budapest. Home sales in the centre of the capital have risen 40% in just a year, according to real-estate agent Otthon Centrum. Demand is highest for 40-60sqm flats in need of renovation. Interest is strong for flats in the 7th district, where local ruin pubs draw young travellers, as well as in the ...
Hungarian Immigration Office “Under Pressure”
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian immigration office has increased the number of employees processing asylum applications since last year but is facing huge pressure to handle a dramatic increase in applications over the past few months, the daily Magyar Nemzet reported. Currently around 25,000 applications are being processed by 134 administrators (34 more than last year), the paper said, citing information from ...
Summer Festivals Receive Nearly HUF 500m From State
- 7 Jul 2015 5:06 AM
- community & culture
Hungary’s summer festivals are receiving a total of nearly 500 million forints (EUR 1.6m) state support this year, an official of the Ministry of Human Resources said. State secretary Bence Rétvári told a press conference that the Sziget Festival in Budapest, the Volt Festival in Sopron in western Hungary and the Balaton Sound festival are getting a combined 150 million forints (EUR 476,000).
Hungarian Housing Market Growing Rapidly
- 2 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- property
The number of homes sold in the first half was up 50% year-on-year at 68,000, real estate agency Duna House announced. As second-half figures are usually higher, the number of sales could reach 150,000 this year, the agency projected. A new home subsidy scheme in effect from July 1 is also expected to lift sales.
Hungary Rejects EC Economic Policy Advice
- 29 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- business
Hungary cannot accept two of the European Commission’s country-specific economic policy recommendations, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said. One of these are the comments on its fostered work programme and the other is in connection with planned budget adjustments, Orbán said after an EU summit in Brussels. The European Council has declared the recommendations “generally acceptable”, which means ...
US Ambassador To Hungary Visits Szeged
- 26 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
US Ambassador Colleen Bell met Szeged Mayor Laszlo Botka during an official visit to the city. Botka showed her the main hall of city hall and said he was “honoured” that Szeged was among the first major cities that Bell had chosen to visit. The Socialist mayor said he would show the ambassador recent developments in Szeged and that the two would discuss the importance of international relations ...
Lawmakers Pass Hungary’s 2016 Budget
- 24 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- business
Lawmakers approved Hungary’s 2016 budget in a final vote months ahead of the legal deadline, with 119 votes in favour and 63 against. The Budget Act calculates with a budget deficit of 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) based on EU accounting rules and public debt of 73.3% of GDP. The budget targets total revenue of 15,800 billion forints (EUR 50.7bn), total expenditures of 16,561 billion forints ...
Bernd Kirschner - After Forever, Budapest Art Factory, 25 June
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Bernd Kirschner’s canvases depict scenes on the verge of figuration and abstraction. The representational characters stem from the real world which he then inserts as mobile entities in the colored picture plane. He is foremost interested in human figures; however, they are not employed to express identity, rather to portray human existence itself. The actors are reduced to their fundamental ...
Hungarain Socialist Leader: Politics Based On Hate “Dead End”
- 15 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Addressing the 10th congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES), the Hungarian Socialist Party’s leader, József Tóbiás, called the politics of hate a dead end. A migration policy based on “internal solidarity” and “shared responsibility” in the EU would lead to a good outcome, he insisted. The Socialists have a common belief that all men are created equal, and no one should be excluded on ...
Real Estate Market On The Rise In Budapest
- 6 Aug 2015 11:45 AM
- property
The growing popularity of online vacation rentals has driven up demand for flats in central Budapest. Home sales in the centre of the capital have risen 40% in just a year, according to real-estate agent Otthon Centrum. Demand is highest for 40-60sqm flats in need of renovation. Interest is strong for flats in the 7th district, where local ruin pubs draw young travellers, as well as in the ...
Hungarian Immigration Office “Under Pressure”
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian immigration office has increased the number of employees processing asylum applications since last year but is facing huge pressure to handle a dramatic increase in applications over the past few months, the daily Magyar Nemzet reported. Currently around 25,000 applications are being processed by 134 administrators (34 more than last year), the paper said, citing information from ...
Summer Festivals Receive Nearly HUF 500m From State
- 7 Jul 2015 5:06 AM
- community & culture
Hungary’s summer festivals are receiving a total of nearly 500 million forints (EUR 1.6m) state support this year, an official of the Ministry of Human Resources said. State secretary Bence Rétvári told a press conference that the Sziget Festival in Budapest, the Volt Festival in Sopron in western Hungary and the Balaton Sound festival are getting a combined 150 million forints (EUR 476,000).
Hungarian Housing Market Growing Rapidly
- 2 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- property
The number of homes sold in the first half was up 50% year-on-year at 68,000, real estate agency Duna House announced. As second-half figures are usually higher, the number of sales could reach 150,000 this year, the agency projected. A new home subsidy scheme in effect from July 1 is also expected to lift sales.
Hungary Rejects EC Economic Policy Advice
- 29 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- business
Hungary cannot accept two of the European Commission’s country-specific economic policy recommendations, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said. One of these are the comments on its fostered work programme and the other is in connection with planned budget adjustments, Orbán said after an EU summit in Brussels. The European Council has declared the recommendations “generally acceptable”, which means ...
US Ambassador To Hungary Visits Szeged
- 26 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- getting around
US Ambassador Colleen Bell met Szeged Mayor Laszlo Botka during an official visit to the city. Botka showed her the main hall of city hall and said he was “honoured” that Szeged was among the first major cities that Bell had chosen to visit. The Socialist mayor said he would show the ambassador recent developments in Szeged and that the two would discuss the importance of international relations ...
Lawmakers Pass Hungary’s 2016 Budget
- 24 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- business
Lawmakers approved Hungary’s 2016 budget in a final vote months ahead of the legal deadline, with 119 votes in favour and 63 against. The Budget Act calculates with a budget deficit of 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) based on EU accounting rules and public debt of 73.3% of GDP. The budget targets total revenue of 15,800 billion forints (EUR 50.7bn), total expenditures of 16,561 billion forints ...
Bernd Kirschner - After Forever, Budapest Art Factory, 25 June
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- entertainment
Bernd Kirschner’s canvases depict scenes on the verge of figuration and abstraction. The representational characters stem from the real world which he then inserts as mobile entities in the colored picture plane. He is foremost interested in human figures; however, they are not employed to express identity, rather to portray human existence itself. The actors are reduced to their fundamental ...
Hungarain Socialist Leader: Politics Based On Hate “Dead End”
- 15 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Addressing the 10th congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES), the Hungarian Socialist Party’s leader, József Tóbiás, called the politics of hate a dead end. A migration policy based on “internal solidarity” and “shared responsibility” in the EU would lead to a good outcome, he insisted. The Socialists have a common belief that all men are created equal, and no one should be excluded on ...